Charlbury Community Centre Appeal

Welcome

For information about Charlbury Community Centre itself, please visit ur website: https://www.charlburycommunitycentre.org.uk/. You will find information about the history of the Centre and acknowledgements of individuals' contributions on the "About Us" page.

The Charlbury Community Centre Appeal Committee (CCCA) is a group of volunteers, which has the specific aim of raising money to help with the running costs of Charlbury Community Centre. We are a sub-committee of the Thomas Gifford Trust www.charlbury.info/community/14, which is the charity which owns and manages the Centre. Through this page, we aim to keep you informed about our fundraising events.

The CCCA changed its constitution in October 2017. Previously the remit was to raise money to build Charlbury Community Centre. An amazing £275,800 was raised for that purpose. Now that the centre is built our remit is to raise money to help with the running costs and any future capital costs that may be needed.

Forthcoming events

The CCCA will continue to run the Pimms stall at Charlbury Beer fesitval each year and will hold other fundraising events when necessary. If you are interested in being on our list of helpers at such events, please contact Tanya at the address below. We would be delighted to hear from you.

Many Thanks

The individuals who have served on the committee and/or helped to raise money for the Charlbury Community Centre Appeal are too numerous to mention. We are enormously grateful to all those people.

Over the past few years several local societies, organisations and charities have made generous donations to the Charlbury Community Centre Appeal including [in alphabetical order] the following:

History

The Charlbury Community Centre Appeal was established early in 2004 by Lynette Murphy, with Diana Potten as her deputy chairperson, Richard Neville, as treasurer and an active and supportive group of helpers. Richard is still treasurer and Lynette still serves on the committee after all these years. In the first four years of existence the committee raised an amazing £142,000, from many events including a huge garden party at Ditchley Park, which raised £22,000 in one day! The money was ring-fenced according to the CCCA Constitution to be used "for the exclusive purpose of contributing all the monies raised as part of the building and fitting out costs for the proposed Charlbury Community Centre". After active fund raising stopped in 2008 mainly due to the credit crunch and uncertainty about the future of the project, the Community Centre Appeal started its fundraising activities up again in 2012 and we have been active ever since, building on the initial £142,000 raised so that the total raised towards building costs was over £275,000, exceeding the target of £250,000.